November 18th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The OpenSocial Foundation is pleased to announce the community has approved the publication of version 1.1 of the specification. In addition to general clarifications, this release now defines the API that enable gadgets to communicate with each other…
November 11th, 2010 | by Mark W. | published in Google OpenSocial
The first Enterprise OpenSocial interop was last week with a number of participants testing container and gadget interoperability. One of the things we took away from the conversation was the need to reach out and engage a broader audience, including a…
November 11th, 2010 | by Mark W. | published in Google OpenSocial
The first Enterprise OpenSocial interop was last week with a number of participants testing container and gadget interoperability. One of the things we took away from the conversation was the need to reach out and engage a broader audience, including a…
October 21st, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
As President of the OpenSocial, I’m pleased to announce the formation of two new Foundation sponsored workgroups (officially called Board Advisory Committees), that will focus on two areas of great importance; alignment with key open source and standar…
October 21st, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
As President of the OpenSocial, I’m pleased to announce the formation of two new Foundation sponsored workgroups (officially called Board Advisory Committees), that will focus on two areas of great importance; alignment with key open source and standar…
October 20th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The first Enterprise OpenSocial “interop-fest” will be held Novevmber 4, 2010, at SAP in Palo Alto, CA. This event will consist of enterprise vendors such as Atlassian, Cisco, IBM, Jive, Liferay, and others coming together to “get their hands dir…
October 20th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The first Enterprise OpenSocial “interop-fest” will be held Novevmber 4, 2010, at SAP in Palo Alto, CA. This event will consist of enterprise vendors such as Atlassian, Cisco, IBM, Jive, Liferay, and others coming together to “get their hands dir…
October 12th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The OpenSocial Foundation and SURFnet are excited to announce the OpenSocial Europe Summit and OpenSocial in Education Industry Spotlight event, to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Monday, Dec. 6 and Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Please RSVP if you pl…
August 31st, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
Lockheed Martin Corporation recently announced the release of its first open source software initiative around social media called Eureka Streams. Eureka Streams is a social media platform that integrates activity streams and OpenSocial apps. Lockheed…
July 15th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
We’d like to share a little bit about why we adopted the OpenSocial platform for our new online service, called Workbench (http://network.nature.com/workbench), but first we should probably fill in some details about who we are.Founded in 1869 as a v…
June 16th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The OpenSocial Foundation community representatives election has concluded. You have selected Paul Lindner and Mark Halvorson to serve as your two representatives for this year’s board. Congratulations to Paul and Mark!For those of you looking to get i…
June 16th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
Greetings Everyone,This is just a quick note to let you know that the election for the two OpenSocial Board Community Representatives is now officially closed. We will be tallying up the ballots and posting the results shortly.I would like to thank all…
June 2nd, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The election for the OpenSocial Foundation’s community board representatives is now open. If you previously applied for membership, you should have received an email directing you to submit your ballot. The election will close at 11:59 PM PDT on Tuesda…
May 28th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
Greetings!Just a quick reminder for everyone. Nominations for the OpenSocial Board of Directors community seats are underway and will close on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Please use the on-line form to nominate someone.We are looking forward to working with…
May 24th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
On behalf of the OpenSocial Foundation, I would like to thank everyone that attended the State of the Union event. A special thank you to the wonderful team at MySpace for arranging and hosting this event. With the participation of about a hundred at…